Human Rights

Edited by David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law, Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and Kevin Walton, University of Sydney, Australia

‘The book sets out to interrogate and challenge many of the distinctions drawn in the human rights discourse; but it also highlights and critiques the different and incomplete ways in which legal philosophers and international lawyers see human rights. These issues are dealt with by some of the leading -and most readable - authors in the field.’

• Contents:PrefaceDavid Kinley, Wojciech Sadurski and Kevin Walton1. Human Rights: Moral or Legal?Tom Campbell2. Human Rights as Moral RightsKevin Walton3. Are We Violating the Human Rights of the World’s Poor?Thomas Pogge4. Human Rights and Political Agency: On Pogge’s Analysis of Human Rights Violations TodayDuncan Ivison5. Universalism and Particularism in Human Rights: Trade-off or Productive Tension?Neil Walker6. The Particularism of Human Rights DiscoursePatrick Emerton7. Democracy and Human Rights: Good CompanionsJeremy Waldron8. Recasting the Relationship: Human Rights, Democracy and Constitutionalism as Material Topoi of LegitimacyEuan MacDonald9. Autonomy, Identity and Self-knowledge: A New ‘Solution’ to the Liberal-Communitarian ‘Problem’?Jacqueline Mowbray10. Four Human Rights MythsSusan Marks11. Where Hope Meets Expectation between Human Rights Idealism and PragmatismDavid KinleyIndex